Beale Park is cancelled
The boat show for small craft, at Beale Park on the Thames near Pangbourne, has been cancelled for this year, with no further plans to revive the show next year. The organisers, See it for [...]
Slats eats into Van Den Heede’s lead
Golden Globe Race: 199th day at sea – Mark Slats is 34 nM behind Van Den Heede as they come within 1600nM of the finish line Difference in distance to finish now reduced to 34.3 miles [...]
British solo yachtsman is OK after All Ships Alert
All Ships alert for overdue British solo yachtsman Robin Davie aboard his Rustler 36 C'Est La Vie
New pilot gig to launch
Traditional clinker built wooden gig ‘Arwenack’ for Falmouth Pilot Gig Club launches at 12 noon at the Watersports Centre in Falmouth, Cornwall
Classic Transat begins
The crew of the largest vessel - Xarifa Eight boats left the island of Lanzarote in the Canaries today racing to St Kitts in the Panerai Transat Classic. In light winds the boats [...]
Sailor survives six days in the open sea
An Indonesian seaman survived six days in the open sea after his ship sank in the Bali Strait. The Multi Prima was sunk by a wave Nahum Naibahas, 26, known as Riski, was [...]
Irish boats at Dragonflies’ 70th
Waldringfield Sailing Club, River Deben, Suffolk By Julia Jones. The weekend of September 5th-7th 2019 saw Waldringfield Sailing Club celebrating 70 years of its 14ft (4.3m) one- design ‘Dragonfly’ class (1949). And in a return [...]
Marine Conservation Society’s Ocean Manifesto
With a general election on 12 December all of the UK’s political parties and MP candidates will be setting out the legislation and policies that they would like to introduce. The Marine Conservation Society has [...]
Antigua 2020 fleet preview
Notive from the Regatta Committee: Changing the dates of the Antigua Classic Yacht Regatta from the usual second half of April to the very beginning (1-7 April 2020) has enabled various past participants to come [...]
Children sail to raise money for YMCA
Thousands raised as local children sail the seas to tackle social issues A relay-style sailing adventure around the UK coastline has raised more than £18,000 so far in aid of the Newark in Nottinghamshire YMCA, [...]
A Classic Boat?
David Greenwood of finding a boat that matched his desire to cruise the coast and canals, and the depth of his pockets... David at the helm in France I was looking for a [...]
New bar and restaurant at Shamrock Quay
Berth holders, tenants and visitors at MDL’s Shamrock Quay Marina will soon be able to enjoy a range of culinary delights from the new onsite bar and restaurant, The Bistro at Shamrock Quay. With a planned launch [...]